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Saturday, 2 April 2011

Fantasy Art Class Week 8 and 9 - 29th March 2011

I'm cramming two weeks into this blog post as I didn't have time to get last weeks posted.
Week 8 - 22nd March.
The purpose of this exercise was to to see what you had learned from the previous weeks exercises about composition, lighting and balance. A rough plotting guide was given as a starting point (fig 1 and 2) and the rest was completely up your imagination.

fig.1

fig.2

Here are some of the results. I will post more as and when you submit them to me .

Drawn by Orazio

Nice character development, Orazio.

Drawn by Claire

Drawn by Jacqui

Nice Pirates of the Caribbean feel to this one.

WEEK 9 - 29TH MARCH

We continue with the quick easy to draw exercises that should enable you to complete a piece of art, with spot colour, in just two hours.
It often helps to choose paper with an appropriate colour tone for the piece you are about to embark on.
For this piece, paper with warm earthy tones were chosen that would easily sit with the red spot colour that I had in mind. Red was chosen as I felt it would create the right atmosphere and tone. I wanted a kind of aggressive war feel to it which was kind of inspired by the movies Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes and Battle For The Planet Of The Apes.
Here's week 9's exercise condensed to a select number of stages.
The plotting stages are in black and white so that they are easy to follow.

It may help to use a 9 panel grid to plot the composition

using simplified shapes, draw the main parts of the anatomy that will define the pose .

Identify the areas to be solid or shaded before applying ink.

A mid grey (in this case a copic neutral gray 5 marker) has been used to make the contrast between the solid black and lighter tone less stark.

Finally, some highlights are added to help pull the character out from the background.